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- From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
- Subject: Re: RE-MACS COST TOO MUCH (NOT!)
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- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 16:13:20 GMT
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- In <STDKAP1.92Aug27224620@icarus.spc.uchicago.edu> stdkap1@icarus.spc.uchicago.edu (Dietrich Kappe) writes:
-
- >Oooh, hypercard. That is serious software. I bet that you use
- >hypercard quite a bit, or else its just some peice of software you are
- >subsidizing with your overpriced mac purchases, right? You do seem
- >like a major hypercard power user to me. Can you point me to a good
- >CAD stack? :-)
-
- A program isn't serious software if it can't do CAD? By that standard,
- most PC software isn't serious, either. Turbo Pascal, Lotus 1-2-3,
- Ventura Publisher, DBase II, and all Microsoft products included. Of
- course, I'm sure your CAD program gives you full online versions of the
- Windows developer's documentation and the King James Bible, in addition
- to cataloging all your disks for you, right? I also assume that the
- Center for Population Economics uses CAD software to write all its
- reports, crunch its statistics, and keep track of its budget, right?
- Or don't you do "serious" research there?
-
-
- Of course the price of the Mac subsidizes Hypercard's development.
- That's the point I've been trying to hammer into you. When you
- buy a Mac, you're getting a complete system. When you buy a PC,
- you get a stripped-down machine, then you pay for the nose to
- buy the capabilities you need (or, at least, as many of them as
- you can afford).
-
-
- >Wow! You must do an awful lot of systems programming (in Hypercard, I
- >bet. Boy, that is a real feat. I'll go and sell all my OS books now. )
- >Have you written much in this area? Where can I get your books?
-
- Actually, all of my books have been on optimizing FORTRAN and
- C coe performance, not writing operating systems in Hypercard.
- If you send me your address, I'll see that you get ordering
- information. BTW, how many books have you written?
-
-
- >That is quite a zinger. Those dumb DOS heads (well, OS/2 is just DOS
- >6.0, isn't it?) might as well fold up their tents. You neglected to
- >mention that A/UX is free, right?
-
- I never said that A/UX was free, or that it was worth the price
- Apple charges, or that it would be worth having even if it was
- free -- none of which I believe. I merely pointed out that AU/X
- exists which disproves your claim that the Macintosh hardware is
- incapable of running a preemptive operating system. I don't claim
- it's desirable, but it's possibly and available if you're silly
- enough to want it.
-
-